Show t Increasing Need for Water Poses Problem for Every Summit Citizen Turn rn the kitchen tap and a tream of water flows flow To a It Is 18 two Darts parle of hydro hydro- fix JM tEen ceo en and one of or oxygen To all aU of ot nw ms it is la A necessity of life Ufe SOY SOT enty aty per cent ent of ot our body is II mater arater Most of ot us Uti living In Summit f f. f r County have not experienced a real Leal water shortage but this seaon sea sea- con on on could be such luch a year The Tho greater part of Utah has A definite shortage We have a desert land and vegetation and Ild nd low on these warts More and more the lower I valleys salleye are coming to Summit Summitt L t County for tor additional water I y j 3 1 A Materials Policy Polley Commission made a study of our water uses I in 1952 Their report shows shawl that I tho ho average dally use of water including all aU purposes increased from m COO gallons per person In ini i oo to 1100 in 1950 1960 They pre pro predict did dict it will Increase to 1800 gal gal- Jons Jon per capita in 1975 The average dally daily use of muni- muni water has haa Increased from 95 5 gallons Jo to to an estimated COO gallons per person for the amo samo periods THIS is the stream water from our home tap if it we arc ago an average American family That pound of bone T-bone steak which you didn't have last night would It have a v e required pounds younds or 1600 1500 gallons of water to Q produce It it One pound of dry wheat grain takes gallons and u a ton of Alfalfa hay requires gal gal- Ions of water nationwide average aver aver- age This amount of water is from our soil soU to the plant root and moves 6 through the individual plants required to make th the above amounts It is then returned to the atmosphere For short we call this phenomenon enon aon of nature Transpiration Increased demands on water ar are are Ib toeing being made by Industry In 1955 they used billion bUllon gallons nU dally in United States It is expected ex ex- petted that this figure will double t j 1975 Much of this water can canh toe h re reused Some however is 2 highly polluted and must be treated treated first Hydrologists say Bay that the total amount of precipitation around jC Ah he b earth is about the same each year i r. r The distribution is not re re- and often results in water l 3 This is a frequent ee of trouble in Utah where we have a 1 large proportion of ol I arid land I Many conservation practices being applied by farmers within Summit County Soil Conservation Districts t are for tor the pur purpose of ot making irrigation water go far tar ther Irrigation structures structure aid the Irrigator to apply water uniformly uniform uniform- ly 11 over a field and in the amount needed by the crop This is la the goal of ot a conservation farmer larmer In a year like this it la to extremely I Important on our farms I I Each of ot us knows the refresh refresh- I ling feeling of at cool clear water lIt It may be from tram the tap or from the mountain stream We must all aU allwork allwork work together t to maintain this valued resource By Dy R. R H H. Felker Soil Conservation Service SerVIe I |